Re: Request change in son-of-rfc2633

pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) Wed, 17 September 2003 13:50 UTC

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"Jim Schaad" <jimsch@nwlink.com> writes:

>Messages that use this choice cannot be read by S/MIME v2 clients, but are
>not to cause crashes in S/MIME v3.1 clients."

I'm having some trouble parsing this... does this mean the RFC is specifying
that S/MIME clients aren't allowed to crash?   How is this enforced?

Peter.